As you can tell, the experience isn’t easy to describe. Afterwards, as I walked back out into the bright, muggy New York evening, I felt equal parts amused, excited and unsettled, and I knew this wasn’t like any other VR I’d seen. – TechCrunch
Tag: 07.29.19
Emmett Till Memorial In Mississippi Keeps Getting Shot At, So It’s Being Replaced With A Bulletproof Version
“This will be the fourth sign that the [Emmett Till Memorial Commission] has placed at the site. The first was swiped in 2008, and no arrests were ever made in connection with the incident. The replacement marker was vandalized with bullets, more than 100 rounds over the course of several years. Just 35 days after it was erected in 2018, the third sign was shot at as well.” – Smithsonian Magazine
Kraftwerk Wins Two-Decade-Long Copyright Case In EU Court
“The long-running case — which carries potentially large ramifications around the use and licensing of samples in the wider music industry — revolves around a two-second drum sequence from Kraftwerk’s 1977 song ‘Metall auf Metall’ (Metal on Metal), which producers Moses Pelham and Martin Haas sampled and looped in Sabrina Setlur’s 1997 song ‘Nur Mir.'” – Billboard
New York City To Arts Orgs: We Both Know You Have A Diversity Problem — How Are You Going To Fix It?
“After years spent measuring and analyzing the problem, the city is now asking organizations to work on fixing it. In recent months, 33 cultural institutions on city-owned property submitted plans to boost diversity and inclusion among their staff and visitors; if they failed to do so, the city warned, their funding could be cut.” – The New York Times
Verbier Festival Founders Launch New Festival In Georgia (The Republic)
Avi Shoshani and Martin Engstroem are the joint artistic directors of the Tsinandali Festival, whose house ensemble, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda (music director of the National Symphony in D.C.), is an orchestra of specially chosen young musicians from the three republics of the Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan) as well as Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. – Bachtrack
Re-Thinking Aaron Copland
How did Aaron Copland’s film music attempt to counteract the Hollywood influence of Erich Korngold? To what degree did he draw inspiration from the master Mexican populist Silvestre Revueltas? How did the Red Scare change Copland’s style in the 1950s? – Joe Horowitz
30th anniversary treats at Garsington Opera
I’ve been to every single 2019 production at the stupendous opera house facing the Getty family’s cricket ground at Wormsley. The Garsington/Wormsley experience is thrilling, partly because, in addition to the high musical standards, there’s a remarkable level of service. – Paul Levy
After Forty Years Of Marketing Broadway, A Legend Retires
Sam Rudy, an actual farm boy who moved to the city and made good, has created publicity for everything from the deeply bad musical Shogun to Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, and he’s going out on Hamilton, which he says is in a class of its own. – The New York Times
The UK Is Having A Jazz Renaissance, Sparked By Young Fans
One DJ explains it this rather charming way: “If you’re 21 now, you can get all kinds of music much faster. You can stream it or listen to it via YouTube … My generation had to buy the records and that took a while to get to a certain point … so inevitably people get to jazz as it is the holy grail when it comes to music.” – The Guardian (UK)